US data center power consumption has seen rapid growth driven to support Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) and cloud computing. Utilities’ decisions to build new electricity supply to meet future data center energy usage takes careful analysis and contracting. Without proper planning, the risk is real that utilities will overbuild based on early forecasts or incorrect assumptions.

Renewable generating projects are forecasted to grow exponentially over the next decade and beyond. Obtaining transmission for these renewable projects is currently more than challenging. As a result, managing investor expectations and achieving success will take work and substantial coordination with multiple stakeholders.  According to the US Department of Energy (“DOE”) Energy Information Agency’s June

Energy innovation has never been more needed than now. With the expected enactment of the August 2022 Senate Climate Act, officially HR 5376, dubbed the “Inflation Reduction Act of 2022”, the U.S. has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to create a new energy and cleaner climate path forward. The changes will not happen overnight, and the most

Southern California Gas Company, on February 17, 2022, submitted plans for the feasibility analysis of the Angeles Link Project, which is a large-scale green hydrogen project to bring hydrogen to the LA basin by 2032. The feasibility analysis involves possibly 200-750 miles of hydrogen pipeline infrastructure, 10-20 GW of electrolyzers (reversible fuel cells), 25-35 GW

The US electricity transmission infrastructure needs improvement.  Economical projects take years to make it through the transmission queues. PJM announced in early February 2022 that it was pausing new interconnections (for 2 years) to work through a back-log that is 500 days for 33% of the proposed new capacity and to allow time to advance